“I cry out in Everyone
I am the Invisible in the All
I am the first and the last
I am incomprehensible silence
Hear me you Listeners
I am the name of the Sound
And the Sound of the Name”

From the Mizraim rite.

Track List

Musicians

Peter Lindahl: Mellotron, Fender Stratocaster, saz, zither, acoustic guitars, bass, mandolin, samplers and synthesizers, melodion, viola da gamba, flutes, woodwinds, oriental and western percussion (darbouka, daf, tambourine, etc), tamboura, sound effects, vocals, background harmonies and narration.
Helena Selander: Background harmonies and vocal improvisation.
Ulf Hansson: Darbouka & Egyptian tabla.
Mikael Gejel: Flutes, acoustic guitar, bass, synthesizers and samplers, tamboura, percussion, background harmonies and jojk.
Karin Langhard-Gejel: Djembe, flute and background harmonies.
Stefan Ottman: Narration.
Helena Jacobssen: Background harmonies nad vocal improvisation.

Music and Lyrics

Peter Lindahl: 01, 02 , 03, 05, 07, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16
Peter Lindahl & Mikael Gejel: 06, 09, 11, 18, 19
Mikael Gejel: 04, 08, 12, 17, 20, 21
Karin Langhard-Gejel: 22

Historical Notes

In May 1994, In The Labyrinth privately released a cassette called Mysteriernas Trädgård (i.e. The garden of mysteries), which soon led on to the CD production of The Garden of Mysteries. This cassette, for which they held no higher marketing ambitions than to have it distributed among esoteric book (and music) stores around Sweden, had initially been intended as an experiment in combining shaman drums with a variety of ethnical styles. However, the project evolved into a more complex format picking up influences from all over the world and moulding together impressions which the band members had gathered along journeys to both near and far.

By the spring of 1995, the first phase of ITL had dissolved due to disagreements over economic and social issues, wherefore Peter Lindahl was left all to himself working for completion of the CD. Although quite a lot of the music had already been featured on the cassette, he added a bunch of new instrumentals and a couple of vocal tracks. Peter found great use of his mellotron, which throughout the eighties had been standing around virtually untouched. Other odd instruments that had not seen the light of day for a long time were picked out of the wardrobe, instruments such as his viola da gamba, the Turkish saz and all sorts of woodwinds.

The exploration of the mysterious garden just led on and on until the summer of 1996, when after a lot of postponing on the record company’s side, the CD was finally released. This actually meant that APM was putting out an album by a constellation now decimated to what had almost become a one man band!
The Garden of Mysteries was received from critical fanfare by an overwhelming response even though it was advertantly admitted that the concept of ITL did not exactly fit in with the “orthodox” definition of progressive rock.

A rare collectors item

Because of disagreements between the initial members of ITL, this rare album remains virtually inaccessible to the item collectors though two of the tracks will presumably quite soon be reissued in a compilation put out by the French progressive label Musea. The title of this CD is going to be ONE WORLD TAPESTRY and behind the initiative is the Australian class teacher, actor, singer and likewise disc jockey Andrew Holborne. The ITL track to appear on this disc is titled Karakoram waltz and is simply a seamless melding together of the two instrumentals Karakoram pass and Moorish waltz, n:r 2 and 16 respectively on The garden of mysteries.

On to next album!